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Active Rain Week in Review 8/20/2007 -8/26/2007

After speaking with Neal Bloom earlier in the Week I was more than happy to be selected to write the Week in Review. This is my second time I am writing the Week in review. This time I asked the question why are we all here? After all What are we really trying to achieve? *With this in mind please press the play button while reading the Week in Review. I believe these people have made some great posts, that not only will we gain knowledge of, but also help us in our ultimate goal.

Corner Grocery Store Relationships by Toby Bloomberg I would like to welcome Toby Bloomberg to Active Rain. I know for anyone who is interested in (like the songs says) money. We can all learn a lot from Toby's outside blog. Diva Marketing Blog

Life with a Realtor can be Tricky by LLoyd Nichols I really enjoyed reading this post about counting on your commission.

Orlando Florida Plan on Attending Blog Orlando by Colleen Kulikowski For those who live in the South East and want to learn more I would recommend this event.

Vincent, Does Feng Shui Really Work? by Vincent Martinez Vincent writes a great piece on Feng Shui really worth the read

Mortgage PrePayment Penalties byJeff Belonger Jeff really explains Pre payment penalties an easy to understand way. If you have high risk... The lenders want Just like the song says...money..

What a Wonderful Time to Buy a Home by Michael Mapes Michael writes a great piece about buying a home in todays market

Should I use a Direct Lender or a Mortgage Broker? by Irina Stampe Irina writes a great piece asking the question which she should use? After all isn't that what we are all here on Active Rain? To learn and hopefully make more Money

How to Market Affiliate Services to the GLBT Community by Don Diltz In a tough Market Don write's a great piece on how we can expand our busines. This is part one of a two part post. It is worth the time to read.

Is a Reverse Mortgage Right For you? by Joe Bartolotta Joe writes a great piece on Reverse Mortgage's.

Speak English or Go Home! by Brian Brady. This is a must read for anyone who lives in a multi cultural area

Ready To Get Back to Normal? I know I am! by Ann Guy I really enjoyed this post and to quote Ann "The best things in life may be free, but you get what you pay for".

The 4 C's of Mortgage Lending by Ken Stampe Ken breaks down the basics in Mortgage Lending with all the guideline changes recently.

Florida Mortgage Commercial & Small Business by David Podgursky David writes a Great piece on Commercial Loans. It is a great example of why people should be careful of when someone tells them they can do it all!

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Now that we got the serious Week In Review Done you Really should enjoy some light reading and maybe just maybe even a laugh or two from the following posts.

Mortgage Industry Shrinking..Bye..Bye.. By Matthew Blum Make sure you turn the video on and listen to the music while you are reading the post

AR - 3 Things That.... by Charles McDonald I know I admitted I have a problem..

Happy Monday, Real Estate Humor by Melissa Grant This is a short but quite story about looking at the positive side of things

How About a Cigar Ring? by Rob Wesler. Anyone who knows me knows I enjoy a good Cigar. If you also enjoy this I recomend this post

Get Pumped! Septic Inspections are No Laughing Matter by Teri Eckholm After reading this post my sides where hurting from laughing so hard.

In Cosing, I would like to thank Leah Rossfor Writing Lask Week's, Week in Review. I hope you enjoy reading these posts as much as I did.

Posted by Matthew J Blum - MyFavoriteMortgage.net on 08/26/2007 05:50 PM

Comments (52)

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52 Comments on Active Rain Week in Review 8/20/2007 -8/26/2007

AUG

2007

Grart job with the review Matt. I missed quite a few of those as I had a very busy week. So now I can catch up on my reading. Thanks for making it easier!!!

Matt -- Congratulations on a great job on this! Thanks so much for the mention! Hopefully you will come up for the day for BLOG Orlando!

Bryant, Thank you Hope you enjoy my selections

Colleen, I will let you know I have to find out if I have my son that weekend. Thank you by the way for all your help

Matt... as Bryant, I was extremely busy this past week. I missed most of these posts, so thanks for putting this together. And the song fits well. Also, thanks for the mention, I appreciate it.

jeff belonger

As much as I read I had to bookmark for more! You worked hard this week Matt and thanks!

Nice Review Matthew- That is a lot of reading I will need to do this week! Thanks and bookmarked! Katerina

Matt, thanks for the mention. :-) Off to read the posts that I missed. Thanks for pulling this one together!

Jeff, Glad you liked the song.. I guess it shows our ages..

Sally, These where some great posts. I hope you enjoy it

Katerina, Thank you so much..I hope you enjoy it as much as I did

Irina, My pleasure you wrote a great post.

Thanks for the mention Matt. Caught me a bit off guard and was actually a little surprised you mentioned my Feng Shui post. I hope that alot of Activerain community can benefit from that post and as you said yourself "gain knowledge, but also help us in our ultimate goal". Thanks again buddy.

Vincent, I really enjoyed your post. I hope it really can benefit the members of Active Rain.

Matt,

Great job writing the week in review, I missed many of these so I will check them out. Great tune, thanks! :)

Matt - nice job! Love the video - and that's why most of us are here for sure!! That and a tiny bit of fun thrown in!!

Ann

Good job bro. Thanks.

Suzanne, Thank you so much. I hope you enjoy them

Ann, I really enjoyed yours and your comment. I agree with you that is why we are all here

Neal, My pleasure hope it was ok to throw the video in.

Matt - Great job - thanks for the heads up on the Orlando Blog event I had missed that one...

I have a lot of reading to catch up on. Thanks for a great review, Matt!

Cyndee, Thank you.. I am going to try and attend it

Jim & Maria, My pleasure glad you liked it

Hi Matt - Many thanks for the honor and the over the top complement. I'm looking forward to digging into your suggested posts .. and learning from all. Happy week!

Toby, My pleasure. Your blog is really great and I think we can all learn something form each other

Matthew - thanks for taking the time to sort through all the postings and come up with these favorites.

Matthew, thanks for taking this on and doing such a great job. I missed a few of these.

Nice job and good selections. Thanks for the mention of my article. One quick note, I could not get the link to work for the article below:

Also, I think you gave my last name to Irina.... :)

Terrific summary, Matt. I missed a bunch of these - lots of reading ahead (now bookmarked so I won't forget). Thanks for your hard work.

Jeff

Thanks for taking the time to do this week in review. I really did miss some great posts and I am going to to have to find some time to do some serious reading.

thanks for the mention Matt

I was out of town so I just found you!

great job... I have a lot of reading to do!

Hi, Matt - I was at a 3-day class this week, so I missed a lot and was looking forward to seeing this week's review. Thank you! I know this took a lot of time, and I really appreciate it.

Great way to introduce the week in review. I caught most but not all as usual and I so appreciate these reviews

AUG

2007

Nice job, Matt. Thanks for the good summary and thanks for the mention. I'm looking forward to many more good weeks.

great job.... I know these take a lot of time reading... thank you

Thanks so much for a great post Matt, I love the mood music as well.

Matt - this was great! I missed quite a few of these so thanks for doing the research for us laggers! LOL!!

Sharon, My Pleasure hope you enjoy them

Ken, Thank you for letting me know. I fixed the link it should work now.

Jeff, It was fun doing it. It makes you look at different posts that you normally don't see

Joan, Hope you have fun reading them.

David, Hope you have a safe flight back...

Margaret, My pleasure hope you enjoyed your class

Ann, Hope you enjoy them

Thanks for adding my post to the list, now I feel like I have hit the big time!!!

AR - 3 Things That.... by Charles McDonald I know I admitted I have a problem..

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Don, My pleasure you really wrote a great post

Thesa, It was a lot of fun to do this. I would not want to do this every week though

Melody, Glad your back! Now lets work on you getting to Florida

Brad, Hope you enjoy reading them

Charles (Dr. C) I am glad I am not the only one with a problem..

Love the song. Good job.

Matt--Thanks for the shout out! Glad you liked it. Alnd thanks for taking the time to read so many blogs just to point out a few.

Matt - I have done a few reviews and I know how much work they are! Thanks for the mention.Great to have them together for reference.

Matt,

I have been so busy with my mutitasking, I was late checking this post out, but you know I will never miss it, great job, this post brought up lots of good reading, I have to go back and read some more , but exellent post!!

Tom Weiss

Matt, thanks for taking the time to do this. I'm glad to see some good, quality writing!

great post

Malika, Glad you like the song. It does fit does'nt?

Ann, You wrote a great post (as usual) it was my pleasure

LLoyd, It was my pleasure. Your right about the time..

Tom,Glad you liked it. Look at some of the SEO that I was telling you about

Rich, You and me both. So much lately has been more about advertising than quality

Joshua, Thank you

Matt, missed so many of these. Thanks. I will try to catch up. It seems everything is taking 4 times longer to get done now days and that leaves less time for my reading. MUST take your advice on this great articles and make time to read. Great job.

Gena, I know it is tough to try and keep up sometimes. I hope you enjoy them.

Matt,

Thank you I now noticed, you teach well :0)

Tom Weiss

Tom, My pleasure you wrote a great post today.

MATT-Thanks really appreciate anyone who does these week in review! Video....nice touch!

AUG

2007

Midori, It was my pleasure. Glad you liked the video

AUG

2007

Sorry I am late to the party but I wanted to thank you on a job well done. Its alot of work and you "done good kid". I've got quite a few a missed. Have a great day!

Desiree, You are never to late..Thank you ...

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